Home of some of the world's most extraordinary Chardonnays including the famous Montrachet, Puligny-Montrachet is the geographical middleman of the white wine villages, bordered by Meursault to the north and by Chassagne-Montrachet to the south. The vineyard of « Les Folatières » produces a wine that is the ultimate expression of the noble Chardonnay grape in the village of Puligny-Montrachet. The vines enjoy an ideal south-easterly exposure, catching as much sunlight as the day-time permits and grow high up on limestone and marl soil. "The Folatières" is the name of the old French foletière "place haunted by wisps", beings of legend, elves with a light and lively grace, the popular imagination saw dancing above the stagnant water.

Vinification & Ageing

Fermentation

Traditional in oak barrels with complete malolactic fermentation

Ageing

8 to 10 months ageing in oak barrels, 50% new

Barrels

Louis Latour cooperage, French oak, medium toasted

Wine tasting

Tasting Note

This wine has ample and wonderful floral aromas. In the mouth, notes of apricot and grilled hazelnuts gives a certain charming richness to the Puligny Folatières 2011. The wine has a lovely roundness in the mouth and there is great length on the finish.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2013 - James Suckling - June 2015 - 95/100This
is fabulous with so much dried fruit, mineral, cream and toffee character. It's
so layered yet it remains agile and intense. A triumph. Les Folatičres had a
small harvest in 2013 after the hail in 2012. The essence of chardonnay. Drink
now.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2013 - Burghound.com - June 2015 - 90/100There is a mild hint of exoticism to the white peach, pear, apricot and floral aromas that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice. There is an opulent mouth feel to the very generously proportioned flavors where a fine minerality helps to add lift to the luscious and lingering finale. By Allen Meadows (USA)

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2012 - Burghound.com - June 2014 - 90/100(...) There is good volume, richness and punch to the generous proportioned and moderately stony middle weight flavors that are blessed with ample amounts of palate coating dry extract before culminating in a delicious and persistent finish. 2018+ By Allen Meadows (USA)

Puligny-Montrachet "Les Folatières" 2011 - Burghound.com - Allen Meadows (USA) - June 2013 - 90/100This is also agreeably fresh and cool with lovely purity to the dried white flowers, peach, pear and the slightest hint of wood toast. There is a lilting quality to the alluringly textured middle weight flavors that exude a subtle if still more obvious minerality on the rich, dry, delicious and well-balanced finale. 2017+

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2010 - Wine Spectator Online - February 2013 - 91/100Opulent, showing peach, apple and grapefruit flavors tinged with honey and spice notes. Still a little oaky, but another year should help to integrate all the components. Best from 2014 through 2022. By Bruce Sanderson, USA.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "les Folatières" 2010 - Wine Enthusiast - November 2012 - 92/100
This is a taut wine, touched by yeast and warmed by ripe yellow fruit. Flavors of melon and spice from the new wood give it an open feel. It's ripe, already rounded and full bodied. By Roger Voss (USA).

Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2010 - Burghound.com - June 2012 - 91/100A classic and ultra-pure Puligny nose offers up refined aromas of various citrus fruits, acacia blossom, green apple and a hint of spiced pear along with plenty of mineral influence. There is lovely detail to the stony medium-weight flavors that possess a relatively sophisticated mouth feel before culminating in a beautifully persistent finish. Lovely and fashioned in an understated style. 2016+. By Allen Meadows (USA).

Puligny-Montrachet "Les Folatières" 2009 - Burghound.com - June 2011 - 92/100Despite the presence of a bit of unabsorbed sulfur the nose remains quite expressive and agreeably fresh with intense citrus, spiced pear and stone hints serving as an elegant introduction to the delicious, delineated and racy medium-bodied flavors that are blessed with good cut and a real sense of underlying tension on the balanced finish. This is a lovely and harmonious effort. 2016+. By Allen Meadows (USA).

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières” 2008 - Wine Spectator - December 2010 - 89/100A banana hint greets the nose in this rich, vanilla and brioche flavored white. There's a citrus underpinning and a touch of heat on the finish. Best from 2012 through 2019. By Bruce Sanderson, USA.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2008 - Wine Enthusiast - November 2010 - 93/100An austere wine, tight and taut, drawing a fine line of apple skins and green plum over a steely, mineral character. This is going to take its time, give it 3-4 years. By Roger Voss, USA.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2007 - Burghound.com - July 2009- 92/100Strong reduction and SO2 notes knock the expressiveness of the nose way down but the vibrancy of the mineral-suffused flavors is not compromised as the tight and linear finish is racy, intense, delineated and impressively lingering. Lovely and this has a bit more depth than most of the 1ers in the range. 2013+

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" 2005 - Wine Spectator - August 2007 - 90/100A ripe, opulent style, offering peach, apricot and anise notes. This is a big Puligny, but it has character and enough structure to keep the flavors pulsing through the finish. Drink now through 2016.

Puligny-Montrachet "Les Folatières” 2005 - Burghound.com - July 2007 - 90/100An elegant, pure and classy nose that is at once airy yet densely fruited with green apple and white flower aromas that merge into round, intense and detailed flavors that reflect a real sense of underlying stoniness on the delicious and persistent finish that is admirably dry and crisp. I like the energy here and if this adds depth with time in bottle, my score could be conservative. 2010+

2003 Puligny-Montrachet “Les Folatières” - Burghound.com - October 2005 - 91 points :The wood is largely if not completely integrated, leaving only notes of pain grille that add nuance to similarly airy, pure and nicely elegant aromas and racy, linear and direct flavors underpinned by almost pungent +minerality and outstanding finishing intensity. This is impressive and the best wine to this point. 91/2007+

2002 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" - Burghound.com - July 2004 - 90 points :This too displays subtle oak that complements elegant, refined, intensely limestone suffused aromas that introduce round, slightly fat and generous flavors of good depth, concentration and intensity. The material is first rate and the best of any wine here with the exception of the grands crus. This is forward enough to enjoy young but it will clearty benefit from a few years of bottle age. 90/2007+

1998 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Folatières" - The Beverage Testing Institute - 2000 : Bright straw hue. Distinguished aromas of honey, spice, and minerals. Quite concentrated and rich on the attack with a moderately full body and a deeply-flavored finish. Already aromatically-developed, this will be best in the near-term.

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